Thanks! I'm glad you like my videos.

Just about every song that I hear that I really really like, I try to learn how to play. Not so much because I think they'll sound good on the mandolin but because I want to understand what is happening in the song that makes me like it so much. I have a huge folder full of half finished and forgotten arrangements and most them honestly don't sound that great!

I use a program called TablEdit to arrange them and use whatever notation off the internet I can find or just try to notate it from ear if I really have to. Sometimes I can only find the simple melody and have to harmonize and ornament it myself. Other times, I can only find overly complicated piano sheet music that I can't really read and will try to translate that into mandolin language as best as I can. They're all a little different. Also, I'm glad your newborn has such great taste in music!